We know, we know. You have seen this a million times already, but according to blog law S32.4586 section T, we are forced to offer our pithy commentary as well. Anyway, Sarah Palin made her hotly anticipated cameo on Saturday Night Live this weekend as a glorified prop, and if…
Last weekend proved a harsh bit or reality to Dolphin’s fans. We lost to a friggin’ winless team! It wasn’t quite the upset that our win against the Pats were, but damn it must not do much for morale, one point difference or not. Things were brighter on the college…
Joe the Plumber’s horny cousin, Mario the Plumb-Her McCain spoke at FIU Today and continued his strange little obsession with Joe the Plumber. After McCain used him as some weird metaphor in Wednesday’s debate, he’s been thrust into the national spotlight. And the press has uncovered that the flat tax…
Miami is one of seven cities that submitted a bid for a Major League Soccer expansion team. Though, Sports Illustrated finds some curiosities in the latest announcement. For one, they were surprised that neither New York or Las Vegas was amongst the city’s bidding. They also find the language used…
Rep. Mario Diaz-Balart’s district covers most of the geographic area of Collier County. Much of that is swamp land, and he only represents about 24% of the County’s electorate, and the Collier voters represent less than 8% of the District 25’s total population. So the endorsement of the County’s main…
The picture of what exactly happened at Ocean Drive on Tuesday is starting to become clearer. All Purpose Dark points us to a press release put out by Niche Media, the mag’s publisher, last night. As we were the first to report, Glenn Albin and Carlos Suarez are indeed heading…
You can send 10 journalists to cover the same thing, and they’ll all come back with ten different stories. Case in point: Yesterday we mentioned a journalist from Canada’s National Post who wanted to get an anecdotal feeling of what the Cuban exile community was thinking about the upcoming election…
Well, it seems that no matter which candidate we elect as our next President, we’ll be able to laugh at him intentionally once in a while (unlike the current administration where all the jokes are scarily unintentional). Both candidates spoke at the Alfred E. Smith dinner last night, and let…
John McCain will be holding a rally at FIU today. [local 10] Everyone is poor now, so expect Art Basel parties to be a bit less lavish. Fewer parties at Art Basel? Oh no, this really is the second great depression. [Herald] Regardless of the awesome-ness level of the parties,…
I hate Mayor Manny Diaz, big-time lawyer Hank Adorno, and former Miami City Manager Joe Arriola because they screwed the public. I was reminded of it yesterday when I received a note in the mail saying I might be able to get $140 or so from the fire fee settlement…
From CBS4: “Miami-Dade Circuit Judge Douglas Chumbley, 51, resigned Thursday after he was accused of indecent exposure in a Starbucks bathroom at the University of Miami back in September.” I always heard the rumors about those campus bathrooms being creepy mansex pick up spots, but I never thought they were…
I guess we are suckers for any Golden Girls related election videos (and since the show took place in Miami it’s totally relevant to our local community). Anyway, this one uses some video editing voodoo magic to make the words of candidates come out of the characters’ speaking holes. The…
7/11 is holding its third “7-Election” in which coffee drinkers “vote” by choosing either a McCain or Obama cup, and Obama is currently leading 59% to 41%. He’s winning Florida with 56% of the vote, too. Haha, how silly? Right? Well the previous 7-elections showed George Bush beating Al Gore…
The National Republican Congressional Committee, in support of Rep. Lincoln Diaz-Balart, has mounted an attack campaign against Raul Martinez centered on this “Wheel of Corruption” TV spot. The direct mail aspect of the campaign elaborates on the charges by pointing out that Martinez’s children have had government jobs, yet fails…
Is anyone interested in reading about the boring details of a routine traffic stop in Miami Beach? What if I told you it involved Sean “(P.) Diddy/Puff(y/ Daddy)” Combs? Yeah, you still don’t. Whatever, TMZ thinks your care. So they’re *EXCLUSIVELY* reporting Diddy was playing his music too loud while…
You know your spelling and grammar are horrible when even I am bothered by it. The Miami Herald’s Naked Politics blog has some pictures of protesters picketing allegedly adulterating WPB congressman Tim Mahoney. One says “Your Fired Time.” Well, I guess someday soon he may be someone’s fired Tim, but…
via Chron A Canadian journalist dropped by the reunion of the Municipal Council of the City of Santiago de Cuba in Exile to get a feel for the Cuban exile’s community thoughts on the upcoming election. Unsurprisingly a quick raising of hands found only two people in the room who…
Katie Couric interviews Joe the Plumber, the only voter that matters. [CBS] Debate fact check: Who lied to Joe the Plumber more? [Fact Check] Every poll shows that Obama won [538] Charlie Crist says that ACORN and all of that isn’t a big deal, because he will undermine McCain any…
The call came in to Tower 41 Condominium, a salmon-pink set of buildings on Pine Tree Drive, on February 22, 2006. Why, asked real estate broker Ricardo Herran, had his client’s application to live there been rejected? In a hushed voice, a curly-haired secretary told him: “It’s two men…. Residents…
Michael Symonette is the cultish, Old Testament-spewing, mysteriously wealthy, and not-at-all-batshit visionary behind Blacks Against Obama. He recently survived a Miami Gardens shooting only because, as he describes it, he got all Jet Li on his assailants. And guess who he believes was behind his near-death experience? Hint: He’s an…
There is no way a non-Cuban Hispanic can unseat a Cuban-American congresswoman who has enjoyed the unflinching support of el exilio for two decades, right? Well, Annette Taddeo is betting $350,000 of her own money that on November 4 she will beat Ileana Ros-Lehtinen. That’s how much the Colombian-American entrepreneur…
If you want to know what it’s like to be a veteran in John McCain’s home state, stop by the Justa Center in downtown Phoenix. On a Thursday morning not long ago, a volunteer named Twyla stands in front of a group of clients at Justa, a day program for…
